The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

The Great and Tolerable Empire
James Baresel reviews Jeremy Black’s new history—and defense—of the British Empire.

Scalia’s Applied Faith
Jeffrey Folks welcomes a collection of Antonin Scalia’s writings on faith.

Ancestry, Time, and the Intimacy of Being
Pedro Blas González reflects on the postmodern assaults on the forces that connect us to our past and enable us to make sense of our present and future.

The Education of Clarence Thomas
Peter Wood welcomes Myron Magnet’s account of the formation of the thinking of Justice Clarence Thomas.

Tertullian and the Rise of Religious Freedom
Mark L. Movsesian reviews Robert Louis Wilken’s helpful reassessment of the history of religious freedom.

Enlisting in Meaning
Anthony M. Barr reviews a forthcoming meditation on the quest for meaning in the face of consumerist culture.

Language, Chance, and Science
Gene Callahan is disappointed with John McWhorter’s takedown of popular theories of the influence of language on thought.

History’s Untouchables
Jason Morgan looks at two new books with competing explanations of the atom bombs of World War II.

Good Taste May Save the World
Andrew Thompson-Briggs welcomes the completion of the English translation of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s two-volume Aesthetics.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.